Shanghai sabotage: Inside Singham's secret strategy to demonize America

Part 3 of a five-part Fox News Digital bid investigating the House of Singham documents the "Propaganda Work" that Mao Zedong taught arsenic captious to winning the People’s War. This reporting includes investigation utilizing cutting-edge technology, including large-language modeling.

Early Tuesday, CodePink nonrecreational activistic Olivia DiNucci raised her fist arsenic she stood connected the platform of a vessel renamed "Granma 2.0," successful a tribute to the yacht Fidel Castro’s guerrillas utilized to motorboat the Cuban Revolution successful 1956.

Standing down a banner speechmaking "LET CUBA LIVE" arsenic the vessel arrived astatine the larboard of Havana, DiNucci, who usually organizes protests successful Washington, D.C., mugged for the cameras with her chap revolutionaries, chanting and pumping their fists successful the air, arsenic camera crews rolled.

Luis De Jesús, who writes for a tract called BreakThrough News, recorded the arrival, portion of days of sum promoting the origin of pro-communism activists, including the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, and packaging the week's activities not conscionable arsenic activism, but arsenic revolutionary governmental "resistance" against the U.S. "empire."

By afternoon, BreakThrough News posted a video of De Jesús' study connected the boat's arrival, with a beaming DiNucci connected board. Other pro-communist media platforms turned the staged lawsuit into a media moment, from the Cuban News Agency to Brazil de Fato.

The country offered a real-time glimpse of however a web built by an American-born, China-based tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, turns activism into propaganda and past propaganda into governmental and intelligence weapons. In this case, the communicative of the Granma 2.0 framed Cuba arsenic a unfortunate of the imperialist U.S., and Cuba's communist benefactor and trading spouse – China – arsenic a liberator, providing atom to a bare citizenry.

As helium fought the People’s War successful the precocious 1930s successful China, infamous communist person Mao Zedong emphasized the value of "Propaganda Work" and "the signifier of changing reality."

Decades later, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping announced a strategy of "telling China's communicative well."

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Marxist tycoon Neville Roy Singham stands (7th from right) with participants of a Global South Academic Forum helium co-sponsored with Tricontinental Ltd. and East China Normal University, which is managed by the Ministry of Education and the Chinese Communist Party. Tricontinental's Vijay Prashad stands to the near and East China Normal University's Lu Xinyu to the right. (Global South Academic Forum)

Last fall, pro-China academics, similar Vijay Prashad, a trusted communist successful Singham's interior circle, spoke astatine a league of the Global South Academic Forum astir creating a "New World Information and Communication Order," an thought popularized successful the 1980s by Third World countries present called the "Global South." 

The league was co-sponsored by Singham, Prashad's Tricontinental Ltd. deliberation vessel and the Shanghai-based East China Normal University, and administered by the Chinese Communist Party. The assemblage features a School of Marxism and teaches "Marxist journalism." Singham, Prashad and league attendees closed the conference, lasting astatine attraction arsenic "The Internationale," a communist anthem played, attendees pumping their fists successful the aerial successful solidarity.

A Fox News Digital probe recovered that the "new information" strategy operates done a web of organizations that produce, money and amplify messaging crossed borders. 

Fox News Digital has identified astatine slightest 200 organizations successful Singham's web of astir 2,000 organizations that straight enactment connected propaganda that parrots the anti-American messaging of the Chinese Communist Party but is dramatically homegrown successful integer shops from New York City to Los Angeles.

The probe recovered that 3 Singham-linked U.S. nonprofits sent a full of $9.1 cardinal successful 7 payments to a pro-China propaganda firm, Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. Ltd. The payments haven't been reported before.

Using large-language models, Fox News Digital analyzed 223 transactions that moved $591 cardinal successful full crossed 5 continents from 2017 done 2025, the latest twelvemonth for which figures are available, successful the Singham web and recovered the wealth flows done 5 concentric rings of an ideological pipeline that spreads pro-China propaganda.

Eleven U.S. nonprofit organizations signifier a halfway hub of the enactment that pumps pro-China, anti-America propaganda into the world, with a full of astir $401 cardinal flowing from Singham and his web into these organizations. The organizations didn't respond to requests for comment.

Fox News Digital antecedently documented $278 cardinal that flowed straight from Singham into organizations that "sow discord" successful the U.S., arsenic House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith enactment it precocious astatine a proceeding connected overseas malign power successful the nonprofit industry. The remainder went done layers of funding.

The 11 nonprofits and their full gross from wrong the Singham network, including nonstop contributions from Singham himself, marque astir of these organizations well-funded: 

• BreakThrough BT Media: $3.5 million, with $1.1 cardinal straight from Singham
• CodePink Women for Peace: $1.8 million, with $1.3 cardinal from SIngham
• Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization Inc.: $420,000
• Justice and Education Fund Inc.: $74.2 million, with $68.7 cardinal from Singham
• People's Dispatch: $1.9 million
• People's Forum Inc.: $28 million, with $22.4 cardinal from Singham
• People's Support Foundation: $181.8 million, with $167.5 from Singham
• People's Welfare Association: $70 million
• Progress Unity Fund: $442,524, with further revenues from different sources
• Tricontinental Ltd.: $16.8 cardinal from Singham
• United Community Fund: $21.8 million

Mao’s strategy relied connected embedding revolutionary actors wrong social, cultural, labour and acquisition organizations to signifier nationalist consciousness, normalize extremist narratives and gradually erode the legitimacy of the authorities from within. 

Similarly, experts say, Singham's web cultivates activistic ecosystems, utilizing nonprofits and advocacy groups arsenic unit multipliers and framing section governmental and societal conflicts arsenic portion of a broader systemic struggle. 

That aforesaid dynamic is disposable successful existent time, arsenic protests, trips and governmental events are filmed, packaged and circulated arsenic portion of a broader narrative. DiNucci is simply a cardinal figure, for example, regularly getting filmed and past broadcast connected Singham web societal media channels, interrupting the dinners, hearings and events of Trump medication officials.

In this model, disruption and polarization aren’t incidental but strategic, designed to weaken societal cohesion and authorization implicit time, precisely the conditions Mao argued are indispensable for triumph against a stronger adversary.

"There is simply a warfare waging for the brains of Americans. It’s captious that America enactment up its defenses earlier the federation is hijacked by confusion, manipulation and malign narratives," scientist Orli Peter told Fox News Digital.

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As unrest escalated successful Minneapolis, investigators uncovered a web of far-left activistic groups allegedly bankrolled by Neville Roy Singham. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images / Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for V-Day)

‘Information Laundering Operation’

A Fox News Digital investigation, scouring scores of fiscal filings, writings and societal media posts, shows not lone wealth moving from Singham-funded entities into U.S. nonprofits, but these nonprofits successful crook backing media production, governmental acquisition and organizing campaigns that beforehand the communicative of the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S. nonprofits pushing the anti-America docket payment from tax-exempt presumption and tax-deductible donations.

What begins arsenic contented — videos, livestreams and commentary — often feeds straight into organizing and protestation activity, creating a feedback loop betwixt messaging and action.

"Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans are moving an accusation laundering operation," said Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, a multidisciplinary laboratory successful Princeton, N.J. "It’s a communicative laundering cognition that is selling China’s communicative to the satellite and sowing discord successful America."

"Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans are moving an accusation laundering operation. It’s a communicative laundering cognition that is selling China’s communicative to the satellite and sowing discord successful America." - Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, a multidisciplinary laboratory successful Princeton, N.J.

A wedding successful Jamaica successful February 2017 betwixt Singham and Jodie Evans, co-founder of CodePink Women for Peace, brought unneurotic ideologues who would aboriginal look connected the boards, backing streams and nationalist messaging of this network. Tax filings papers the transfers. The emergence of a web of "Liberation Centers" papers the carnal infrastructure.

That web has matured into a transnational protestation and media machine. Nearly a decennary later, its infrastructure is disposable connected American streets, coordinated, funded and amplified by groups built quietly, deliberately and successful plain sight. Singham and Evans didn't respond to requests for comment.

Last week, BreakThrough News broadcast DiNucci extracurricular the White House protesting to enactment the authorities that the U.S. and Israel are targeting with rocket strikes successful the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co.

Part of that strategy operates overseas, wherever backing supports media accumulation aligned with Chinese Communist Party narratives. Significantly, determination are a bid of 2 enactment items that uncover conscionable however intimately this expected charitable web works with organizations tied to the Chinese Communist Party.

Buried wrong the taxation filings are the receipts connected however 3 U.S. nonprofits from the Singham web sent 7 payments totaling $9.1 cardinal successful wealth backmost to Shanghai to wage a pro-China propaganda firm, Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. Ltd., housed successful the aforesaid luxury gathering arsenic Singham’s operation. It’s not acold from the assemblage wherever Singham’s sister holds an world position.

Guo Xiao, a erstwhile enforcement astatine Thoughtworks, the tech institution founded by Singham and sold successful 2017 for astir $800 million, sits connected the committee of Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications, according to institution records. Xiao didn't respond to a petition for comment.

Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. identifies itself arsenic producing contented aligned with Chinese Communist Party narratives. 

Beginning successful 2021, according to Fox News Digital analysis, 3 organizations from Singham's web sent implicit $9 cardinal straight to Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Co. successful 7 payments for "production of online quality program," according to its taxation filing.

BreakThrough BT Media Inc. 

One of the cardinal organizations wrong the broader transnational media apparatus successful the Singham web is BreakThrough News, whose newsman met the Granma 2.0 astatine the larboard successful Havana.

In a missive helium sent to BreakThrough News past month, Smith said the House Ways and Means Committee is acrophobic that BreakThrough News is "part of a larger multipronged effort from the CCP to sow discord successful our country" and that it has been "funded and influenced by Mr. Singham’s CCP affiliations."

In aboriginal December 2019, BreakThroughNews.org was registered online. Early the adjacent year, successful aboriginal March 2020, "Breakthrough / BT Media Inc." was registered successful Delaware arsenic a caller company. It got IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit presumption successful June 2020 arsenic Breakthrough BT Media Inc. 

Singham gave a full of $1.1 cardinal to BreakThrough BT Media Inc. implicit 2 years with the intent of the tax-deductible donations written simply arsenic "public service" and "medical / nationalist services" successful IRS Form 990 filings.

In its first IRS filing, documenting its 2020 work, Breakthrough BT Media Inc. listed acquainted names among its three-person committee of directors. Ben Becker, the lad of different trusted Singham adviser, Brian Becker, was the president of the board. Today, Becker is connected the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s "Central Committee." Becker was besides successful Cuba this week to enactment the communist regime.

Another manager was Claudia De La Cruz, a person astatine the Party for Socialism and Liberation with Becker and a wedding guest.

Finally, a socialist person named Karla Reyes was connected the board. She is the girl of immigrants from El Salvador and roseate successful the ranks from joining Occupy Wall Street protests to landing a spot connected the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is contiguous an progressive subordinate of "ICE Out of New York," started by the People’s Forum, its protests filmed regularly by BreakThrough News.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith  is pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to ace down connected organizations that are "manipulating the Tax Code" to run arsenic nonprofits. (Ben Brewer/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

In his missive to Reyes, Smith demanded records related to the organization’s ties to Singham and the Chinese Communist Party. He requested that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent region the nonprofit presumption of organizations successful the Singham network. 

While BreakThrough News doesn’t usually sanction the Chinese Communist Party directly, it regularly lauds Xi's regime. In 2021, BreakThrough News’ big Rania Khalek promoted the "Chinese government" and its "eradication of utmost poorness wrong its border." She co-hosted the league with Tings Chak, a researcher astatine Tricontinental, the limb of the House of Singham that pumps retired pro-China world work.

The Singham web functions similar a coordinated unit. In 2022, People’s Forum gave BreakThrough a "non-cash" lease worthy $318,596 for workplace abstraction astatine its W. 37th Street address. 

BreakThrough’s ngo connection claims to beryllium "unbiased towards immoderate governmental candidates," but the far-left outlet adjacent created videos during the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination highly captious of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris arsenic wanting to "out-Trump Trump."

What began arsenic a small, ideologically driven quality level became a wide multimedia instrumentality producing documentaries, podcasts and societal media contented that amplified protestation movements, planetary solidarity campaigns, particularly astir Palestinian issues and "anti-imperialist," anti-America narratives. 

It’s a subordinate of the International People’s Media Network, different portion of the planetary House of Singham and a conjugation of media platforms often publishing anti-America, pro-China contented and sharing unit with Tricontinental.

In 2023, BreakThrough News sent representatives to a league hosted by the School of Communications astatine the East China Normal University, the nationalist instauration funded by the Chinese Communist Party's Ministry of Education. Singham’s sister, Shanti Singham, and his friend, Prashad, enactment intimately with those institutions. 

Following the apprehension of Venezuelan person Nicolás Maduro, groups successful Singham's web organized protests wrong hours. BreakThrough News posted videos from the demonstrations. It did the aforesaid with protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

NewsClick

Fox News Digital has besides tracked $10.5 cardinal the Justice and Education Fund sent to New Delhi-based PPK NewsClick Studio Pvt. Ltd. successful 5 payments from 2019 done 2023 erstwhile the authorities of India unopen the cognition down for allegedly utilizing donations improperly to tally an anti-India, pro-China propaganda media outlet.

The authorities of India has sent Singham a transgression summons for alleged predetermination interference, wealth laundering and terrorism, alleging helium engaged successful schemes to sow discord successful India. The NewsClick lawsuit is inactive awaiting a proceedings date.

National information experts accidental it is captious to recognize the large representation to afloat worth the bid power of this planetary propaganda warfare with a tech tycoon arsenic the motherlode.

CodePink nonrecreational staffer Olivia DiNucci stands (L) successful a reddish Palestinian kefiyyeh with a unit connected a ngo they made to Cuba connected a vessel symbolically called "Granma 2.0."  (Yuri Cortez / AFP via Getty Images)

Back successful Havana, arsenic DiNucci stepped onto the dock and cameras rolled, the infinitesimal reflected much than a azygous enactment of activism.

It showed however the Singham network’s messaging strategy works successful existent time, capturing events, shaping narratives and distributing them to audiences acold beyond the thoroughfare or, successful this case, the dock.

In Mao’s terms, it is "Propaganda Work," not conscionable reporting connected the news, but helping specify it.

From the dock successful Havana, DiNucci played her role, shouting, "Viva la Cuba."

Fox News Digital's Brooke Caruto, Nikolas Lanum and Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.

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